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“It would be foolish to despise tradition. But with our growing self-consciousness and increasing intelligence we must begin to control tradition and assume a critical attitude toward it, if human relations are ever to change for the better.”

Ifs Humans Self Would Be Consciousness Attitude Growing Tradition Relation Assuming Critical Foolish Despise Human Relations Self Consciousness Change For The Better

Book:Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb

Source: Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb

“Never before was it as incumbent upon every members to restate loyalty and exemplify fraternal obligation by consistent life and unimpeachable character. But these must be reinforced by a growing consciousness of the responsibilities that Alpha Phi Alpha faces in the world today, where, if ever the problems which beset us are to be solved and a way of deliverance discovered, it must be by the application of those principles upon which we are founded.”

Ifs World Way Character Problem Today Faces Consciousness Responsibility Principles Growing Members Loyalty Obligation Consistent Application World Today Deliverance Incumbents Alphas Fraternal

Author:Jewel

“We're still growing into that place of higher consciousness; we are becoming a global conscience. The idea is to unravel the onion and let go of the ego and evolve to that place where you perceive everything to be a beautiful experience rather than a daunting experience.”

Stills Ideas Beautiful Consciousness Growing Becoming Higher Letting Go Ego Conscience Evolve Perceive Higher Consciousness Onions Beautiful Experiences

Author:Jon Anderson

“A set of ideas, a point of view, a frame of reference is in space only an intersection, the state of affairs at some given momentin the consciousness of one man or many men, but in time it has evolving form, virtually organic extension. In time ideas can be thought of as sprouting, growing, maturing, bringing forth seed and dying like plants.”

Source: The Ground We Stand on: The History of a Political Creed

“The utmost the American novelist can hope for, if he hopes at all to see his work included in the literature of his time, is that it may eventually be found to be along in the direction of the growing tip of collective consciousness. Preeminently the novelist's gift is that of access to the collective mind.”

Ifs Mind May Found Literature Consciousness Growing Access Novelists Collectives Collective Consciousness

Book:Beyond Borders: The Selected Essays of Mary Austin

Source: Beyond Borders: The Selected Essays of Mary Austin

“Our civilisation cannot afford to let the censor-moron loose. The censor-moron does not really hate anything but the living and growing human consciousness.”

Humans Doe Hate Consciousness Growing Civilization Censorship Civilisation Moron Human Consciousness

Book:The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence

Source: The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence

“In a way, I feel I have enough tools and knowledge now that when I build it has a very specific agency that's very conscious. It's no longer speculative; it's really constructed. I'm very interested in how that consciousness, about how I am producing, is working within different conditions. It's like growing up.”

Way Feels Different Enough Consciousness Growing Up Growing Conditions Conscious Tools Agency

Author:David Adjaye

“I'll tell you what I think. I think sages are the growing tip of the secret impulse of evolution. I think they are the leading edge of the self-transcending drive that always goes beyond what went before. I think they embody the very drive of the Kosmos toward greater depth and expanding consciousness. I think they are riding the edge of a light beam toward a rendezvous with God.”

Thinking Self Light Secret Consciousness Greater Growing Evolution Depth Edges Impulse Riding Sage Expanding Beam Transcending Rendezvous

Book:A Brief History of Everything

Source: A Brief History of Everything

“God is the Supreme Musician. It is He who is playing with us, on us and in us. We cannot separate God from His music. The universal Consciousness is constantly being played by the Supreme Himself, and is constantly growing into the Supreme Music.”

Consciousness Growing Musician Universal Supreme Being Played

Author:Sri Chinmoy

“Legalize hemp and allow women to grow it and make food, clothing and housing for pennies from it and legalize marijuana too. Let women integrate their divided consciousness with a natural herb instead of doctors' pills that kill the liver.”

Grows Women Natural Consciousness Growing Drug Doctors Medicine Divided Clothings Marijuana Housing Pills Pennies Herbs Integrating Medication Liver Narcotics Hemp Legalizing Marijuana

Author:Roseanne Barr

“I had been a kind of natural mystic my whole life, growing up there in Tennessee next to the river. Somehow, that was important for my consciousness. I still don't study [mysticism]. I just wait for experiences.”

Kind Stills Important Whole Next Waiting Natural Consciousness Growing Up Study Growing Rivers Whole Life Mysticism Mystic Tennessee

Author:Coleman Barks

“It's not going to be a straight upward progression, but there's no doubt that consciousness is growing. Prejudices die regularly in the Western world. We don't burn witches anymore.”

World Dies Consciousness Doubt Growing Prejudice Western No Doubt Witch Progression Western World Straight Up

Author:John Shelby Spong

“Growing up in Asia in a particular time period - the '50s and '60s - I attended a Catholic missionary school where I was taught by nuns and where consciousness of the body was repressed. Yet at the same time, the female body was a highly visible and sensitive site.”

Body School Consciousness Growing Up Growing Taught Particular Periods Female Catholic Sensitive Visible Missionary Site Asia Nun Repressed Female Body Time Periods

Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim